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A couple of my paintings will be featured in this biennial exhibit: Celebrating Contemporary Art in Alabama: The BiennialJohnson Center for the Arts in Troy, AL Artists Reception on Sunday, Sept. 8, from 1 - 3pm Link to Art Center Website

Annabelle up early for freshman move-in day for University of Alabama, Birmingham. I was surprised that their extremely efficient system got us to the dorm and all boxes to her 7th floor room within 10 minutes. A great army of sorority and fraternity helpers swarmed our car and made off with the tower of stuff before we could make a move. I was kissing her goodbye before I knew what hit me. So far (Day 3 now) empty nest is a serene and splendid thing.

Annabelle's painting, "Warrior," was selected to hang in the U.S. Department of Education in Washington DC for the next year in an exhibit called ART.WRITE.NOW. The painting is of me. Annabelle says I'm a warrior princess, but I think I'm really an evil sorceress.

During my trip to Colorado, Scott and I took a day to travel to Fort Collins to hang out with my 93 year old Granny. One of the most beautiful drives anywhere leads over Rabbit Ears Pass, through the high plains of North Park, over picturesque Cameron Pass, and through the windy Poudre Canyon. Between the their and back trips we saw a total of 11 moose. I'd never seen one before. The one above was seen right at the summit of Cameron Pass.

Poudre Canyon is deep and rocky, with excellent fishing in the Poudre River which winds next to the road. I tried to take photos of the miles of rock walls, but the image above was the best I could come up with.

Last year a massive forest fire swept through the Poudre area, and even my granny was close to evacuating before the winds changed. The above shot shows a mountain of burned trees in the background. Another difficult-to-capture image.

We tried to get through North Park on the way home before the sun set so we would be less likely to hit…

Last week Scott and I went home to Steamboat to see family and enjoy a Colorado mountain get-away. I'll break up the report into a few posts because I took so many photos. This post features images from a morning hike I took with my sister, Dana on the first day in town. Scott fly-fished 100% of the time so he will be suspiciously absent from most of my posts.

We hiked toward Crystal Peak, above. It was the second time we headed up this mountain but didn't reach the top. It's far, and on this particular hike we had no intention of going the distance. We picked at ate raspberries, serviceberries, and thimbleberries until we were stuffed. Our hands glowed red with berry juice as we lumbered through bear county, stepping over bear poop filled with berries.

And we saw plenty of bear territory marks on the trees. On our last hike up this trail we came upon a baby bear with no mommy in sight. We ran like hell.